| Description |
xvi, 270 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-270). |
| Contents |
What do we call it? -- Waiting for the Reichstag fire -- The Styrofoam president -- We could call it a kakistocracy -- We could call it corruption -- We could call it aspirational autocracy -- We could pretend he is an alien, or call it the government of destruction -- The death of dignity -- Mueller did not save us -- Institutions have not saved us -- Words have meaning, or they ought to -- The power lie -- The tweet trap -- Normalization is (almost) unavoidable -- Resisting Trump's war on the media -- How politics dies -- A white male supremacist president -- "Throwing off the mask of hypocrisy" -- The antipolitics of fear -- Confronting civil society -- The power of moral authority -- Who is "us"? And who are we? |
| Summary |
"An analysis of the destruction the Trump administration has waged on our institutions, the cultural norms we hoped would save us, and our very sense of identity"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Trump, Donald, 1946- -- Influence.
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Authoritarianism -- United States.
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Dictatorship -- United States.
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Political culture -- United States.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-
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| ISBN |
9780593188934 (hardcover) |
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